Hematology Stains
This stain is used to enumerate and identify reticulocytes in the blood.
What is New Methylene Blue stain
This test method is the gold standard for determining hemoglobin and uses spectrophotometry to measure the amount of hemoglobin present in the blood.
What is Cyanmethemoglobin?
This is the most common type of leukemia that occurs in children
What is Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia (ALL)?
The presence of Pappenheimer bodies in the red blood cells is consistent with a diagnosis of this type of anemia.
What is sideroblastic anemia?
If it doesn’t make sense….
What is "it's not true"?
This stain procedure is used to evaluate the iron stores in the bone marrow.
What is Prussian Blue Stain?
This test is used as a screening method for Sickle Cell Anemia.
What is Hemoglobin Solubility Test (Sodium Dithionite Solubility Test) OR Sodium Metabisulfite test?
This type of leukemia will predominantly show Auer Rods as a finding when reviewed under the microscope.
What is Acute Myelogenous Leukemia?
This anemia is caused by the destruction of the bone marrow pluripotential stem cells.
“Chicken pox” of the red blood cells, this can be seen in lead poisoning
This stain is used to determine if there is fetal blood in maternal circulation by staining the hemoglobin F in the fetal blood.
What is Kleihauer Betke Stain?
Used to identify hereditary spherocytosis, this test relies on the fact that fragile cells will burst at varying concentrations of NaCl when compared to normal cells.
What is the Osmotic Fragility Test?
Smudge cells can be a common finding in this leukemia.
What is Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL)?
An “anemia within an anemia”, this disorder is caused by the autoimmune destruction of intrinsic factor.
What is Pernicious Anemia?
One of Trin's quotes at the microscope, "look to see if the cells have come with"…
What are "friends"?
This stain is used to help diagnose suspected cases of hairy cell leukemia.
What is Tartrate Resistant Acid Phosphatase (TRAP) stain?
This test would be most helpful in differentiating infectious mononucleosis from cytomegalovirus infection.
What is the Heterophile antibody test?
Disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) is a common complication for this leukemia.
What is Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia (APL)?
Having similar RBC morphologies with iron deficiency anemia, this anemia can be differentiated from IDA in that there will be an increased bone marrow iron and ferritin.
What is Anemia of Chronic Disease?
This animal would sometimes join class or provide a song to the class during Web Ex sessions (Trin’s pet).
What is a cat?
This stain is used to help differentiate a reactive process from chronic myelogenous leukemia. A “score” is provided and is low or normal in the latter but is elevated in the former.
What is Leukocyte Alkaline Phosphatase (LAP) stain?
Though typically not performed in hematology, this test helps to identify spherocytosis when it is seen in certain autoimmune anemias.
What is the Direct Antiglobulin Test (DAT) or Direct Coombs test?
Representing 20% of all leukemias and categorized as a Chronic Myeloproliferative Disorder, it is caused by an acquired chromosome abnormality that demonstrates as a short chromosome 22 which is named the Philadelphia chromosome.
What is Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (CML)?
These are the main causes of megaloblastic anemia.
What is dietary deficiency of B12, defective absorption of B12, and lack of intrinsic factor?
That jerk from accounting, he’s also present when patients have Hodgkin Lymphoma.
Who is Reed Sternberg?